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Died. Edward Beale McLean, 55, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, buyer of the famed Hope diamond; near Baltimore. He bought the diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they entertained spectacularly in Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years from Embassy life with father in Moscow and Paris, "finished" at Foxcroft, she is a dark-haired beauty in her own right...
Gene Tierney, 20, Hollywood's shapely Tobacco Roadster, and Count Oleg Cassini, 28, who was divorced last year by Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, patent-medicine heiress, eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., and married...
Birthdays. Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, quietly, her 15th. Commander in Chief Adolf Hitler, with his armies in the Balkans, his 52nd (see p. 22). Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, in whose honor 1,000 new schoolhouses were opened, his 58th. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, promising to leave Army bands for his Philadelphia orchestra "after the present national crisis is past," his 59th. Actress May Robson, a guest at a special screening of her 60th picture (Million Dollar Baby), her 76th...
Divorced. Barbara ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Hutton, Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, 28, five-and-dime heiress ($20,000,000); from Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 44, as the decree signed by Denmark's King Christian X became final. Son Lance, 5, will spend most of the year with his mother. His father will spend the next few days in a hospital. He fractured a shoulder skiing at Sun Valley...